It’s like machines replacing farm hands. It’s the end of feudalism because the peasants are not needed anymore. The feudal lords won’t make the profits but the factory owners and the mining owners.

If the AI companies are the mines, what are the factories?

With AI, essentially everybody starts at middle management or above because the grunt work is automated. Now it’s all about allocating resources, acquiring clients and creating new products.

Somebody has to monitor the AIs and write the prompts. It’s middle management for everybody.

They had to. If life in western Europe would have been worse than in eastern Europe, people would have elected communists.

If you don’t come to America, America comes to you.

Those were concessions to look good compared to communist countries. There is no need for a good impression anymore.

The candle was needed.

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Trump announced his plans the previous day to develop the multilayered, $175 billion (€155 billion) system with ground- and space-based capabilities that can defend against a wide range of enemy weapons

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II_development

the program was expected over its lifetime (until 2070) to cost $406.5 billion for acquisition of the jets and $1.1 trillion for operations and maintenance.

How? Hypersonic missiles should make it more difficult.

Add automation for cheap production costs and any defence system can be overwhelmed.

Knowledge can be a status symbol like clothing. People show what they know if they can signal their status with it.

In that form, knowledge is not verified by own thoughts. The value of the knowledge comes from the reputation of the source and the value of the people who agree with it.

That door is locked.

The cartoon is apt. It’s even worse. Pilots don’t fly without the approval of airline management.

The door to the cockpit is locked. If there has been a discussion or if there is just this vote, the powerlessness of those regular passengers shows that anti-intellectualism is an isolated problem. It only looks dangerous to those who don’t remember the locked door.

Just one article about the work conditions: https://africame.factsanddetails.com/article/entry-190.html

It could be that building the pyramids was not the regular job of the laborers. It was a communal experience like going to burnig man.

Society would be different if there would be one project that everybody builds together. It would be as unifying as a big war, without the disadvantages of a war.

It’s not the same because the president doesn’t represent society in a democracy in the same way.

For Egypt, the pharaoh was the thing that made Egypt. Kind o like the Dalai Lama or Jesus, the pharaoh was the son of horus, the incarnation of the principle of ruling. I am not an expert but I would say that the pyramid was built for that principle and not the person itself, whereas Trump has a Trump tower to make himself known.

If it isn’t Trump but e.g. Taylor Swift, I could imagine fans to build something for her, e.g. her next stage set, if she offers to provide food and housing.

For democracy though, society should build something that doesn’t celebrate one person but the community. E.g. China has a day when every citizen plants a tree. When you see the effect after some years, you can feel the transforming power of the community.

People would have time to debate political issues. Their job wouldn’t take the biggest part of their life so they wouldn’t link their identity with their job. Social customs would change so that the people who should work 40 hours for the benefit of all prefer other jobs. Scarcity of applicants would also shift the power towards the employees for wage negotiations.

It’s possible and could improve society massively, but too risky for the current business owners to implement on their own.

Pyramids were most likely not built by slaves. They were communal projects.

We need something like the pyramids today. Communal projects that show the strength of the community.

The names were first. The locations are named after names.

Even America was a name first.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci

Like always, google is doing things for free to get training data.

All things are going into an authoritarian direction which needs control of the opposition. Google will have the infrastructure to identify people with opposing mindsets. There won’t be a rebellion if the rebel leaders can be locked up in time.

It seems like you escape your inner conflicts by being industrious.

Not professional advice but instead of going, you could halt posting for a moment and focus on your breathing. It will assure you that you are safe, and you can let the conflicts become a bit more aware without feeling overwhelmed by the terror. Do this for some time and you create the space to transform your conflicts.